How do I make a newly installed IDE hard drive become my start up drive?

I bought a 120GB Maxtor hard drive and installed it correctly in my G4 Sawtooth. I shut down and restarted. A screen prompt telling me it can't read a disc asks me to initialize it so I did just that. The second hard drive is now on my desk top. I used disc utility to erase and format it Apple Partition Map as Mac OS Extended journaled. I would like to make this new 120GB drive the start up drive and erase the other Maxtor 27GB drive to make it a slave. Is this too much to do? Should i just leave it with the 27GB drive as the start up drive and retain the 120GB drive as a back up slave drive. Any pointers? I was told to format the drive then mirror copy it. I don't know how to do that operation, I am really quite new to this. Please advise.

You need to rejumper the drives - new one to Master, old one to Slave. See Power Macintosh G3 and G4: IDE Master and Slave Support and Configuration
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24342
Use the System>Startup Disk preference window to designate the new drive as the startup drive.
For backup/clone (mirror), you can use the freeware CarbonCopy Cloner @ http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html , or the freeware SuperDuper @ http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html , or the freeware IBackup @ http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/index.html , or the Restore function of Disk Utility included in OS X.
 Cheers, Tom

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